Racana Adalah Quotes & Sayings

Homosexuality is like an inside baseball thing. It's like a gag that people share; 'How is your husband?' But when it comes to bringing diversity to a broader audience, suddenly it's a different road. It's what we call 'a risk.' Isn't it our responsibility to elevate the standards and change people's perceptions? — Xavier Dolan

The accent in England can change literally from street to street, and people have this sort of feudal tribalism whereby you can identify somebody's provenance by their voice. — Rupert Friend

I have been beset night and day at Alton. And now, if I leave here and go elsewhere, violence may overtake me in my retreat, and I have no more claim upon the protection of any other community than I have upon this. — Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Sometimes doubting your first thought, will cost you more for going with your second thought. — Pontius Joseph

I didn't say a word but stared
At Derek, still a little hazed.
He stared back, uncertain, scared,
Still unbelieving and amazed. — Tatyana K. Varenko

Pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold. — Catharine Beecher

One of the reasons I always come back to representations of loneliness in plays, films, and literature is that they give us specific examples of the powerful hold that it has on us, and yet, paradoxically, by representing what can't really be represented, so to speak, they give us ways of going forward even as we fall apart. — Thomas L. Dumm

A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory. — Louis Agassiz

She was beautiful
but especially she was without mercy. He must own that strength that could send him away. — F Scott Fitzgerald

This lonely, uncompromising, obsessive tug-of-war with presumed reality, this is what art is all about. — Tom Robbins

Physical qualities don't really matter much. — Frank Langella

That fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseperable from the perfection of the beautiful. — Edgar Allan Poe

The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much. — Russell Baker

He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead. — Robert Louis Stevenson

If you ask the question of Americans, should we pay our bills? One hundred percent would say yes. There's a significant misunderstanding on the debt ceiling. People think it's authorizing new spending. The debt ceiling doesn't authorize new spending; it allows us to pay obligations already incurred. — Peter Welch